(Credit: Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via Storyful)Īaron cautioned that the images may be disturbing, but said they were released so that people could better understand what happened.
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Delke was about to face trial for a first-degree murder charge.Īt the July plea hearing, Vickie Hambrick sobbed, screamed, cursed and knocked over a courtroom lectern in a scene that briefly delayed the hearing before the judge accepted the plea agreement.Īfter that July hearing, Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk responded by saying he had been in contact with them for three years and knew Hambrick wanted Delke to be convicted of murder and sentenced to prison for life, and he had to decide what was in the best interest for the state.įunk called it "significant progress" because it would be the "first night Nashville has had a police officer in jail for shooting a Black man on duty.Body camera footage appears to show police officers in Tennessee repeatedly plea with a man who stopped traffic on an interstate to drop a box cutter and surrender.
The Hambrick family has said they did not know about the plea deal until after it was done. Jonathan Mattise/Associated Pressĭelke appeared remotely from jail during the brief initial hearing.Īttorneys on both sides have said Delke will likely serve a year and a half in jail with standard credits.ĭelke is serving time in a jail facility run by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, not in a state prison.Ī parole official said during Monday's hearing that the Tennessee Board of Parole will issue the decision in Delke's case. Above, Delke speaks via webcam from jail during a parole meeting on Monday at the Downtown Detention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, as his attorney, David Raybin, center, looks on.
Vickie Hambrick called the process that led to the plea deal unfair, secretive and racist, saying if roles were reversed and her son had shot a police officer, he never would have been able to receive such a generous plea agreement, from a potential life sentence related to a first-degree murder charge down to a three-year manslaughter sentence.įormer Nashville police officer Andrew Delke waived his right to a parole hearing under a plea deal for fatally shooting 25-year-old Daniel Hambrick in 2018 while Hambrick was fleeing on foot and holding a gun. Hambrick, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot by Delke while fleeing with a gun, and his mother, Vickie Hambrick, reiterated her complaints about the plea deal she voiced last summer at the Monday hearing. After facing charges of first-degree murder over the 2018 shooting, Delke, 28, agreed to a plea deal that avoided a trial and allowed him to plead guilty to manslaughter.ĭelke received a three-year sentence, and the plea deal stipulated that he would not seek parole. The mother of Daniel Hambrick, who was shot and killed by a Nashville, Tennessee, police officer in 2018, repeated her objections Monday at a hearing for former officer Andrew Delke that the plea deal Delke received reducing his sentence was made without any consultation with the family.ĭelke waived his right to a parole hearing held Monday, an agreement that was part of his plea deal from last July.
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